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Windows CE gets NTFS support

Jonathan Angel | Date: Jan 11, 2010 | Comments: 1

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Tuxera announced Windows CE software that will allow the operating system to access disk drives using Microsoft's NTFS (new technology file system). "Tuxera NTFS for Windows CE" will enhance communication with Windows-based PCs and external hard disk drives," the company says.

Microsoft's NTFS
was introduced in 1993 with Windows NT 3.1, and is the standard file system of successor operating systems including Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and 2008, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. However, NTFS-formatted drives cannot be read by Windows CE, just as they are inaccessible to standard Macintosh OS X and Linux installations.

Tuxera, which says it was the first to implement reliable NTFS read/write support for Mac OS X, Linux, and other systems, says it is now offering such support for Windows CE. The company's Tuxera NTFS for Windows CE is based on the company's deployed open source NTFS-3G driver, now said to have more than 10 million installations, thus offering what's claimed to be "essentially the best reliability you can get."

According to the company, Tuxera NTFS for Windows CE will be relevant to consumer electronics manufacturers and automakers whose products run Windows CE and need to communicate with Windows PCs or external hard disk drives. There are presently no alternative solutions for plugging an NTFS-formatted drive directly into a Windows CE device, the company adds.

Tuxera CEO Mikko Vlimki stated, "When we were first asked about NTFS support for Windows CE, I can honestly say we were puzzled. [Last] week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas we [became] ... convinced that this was the right decision. There is an actual need, which we can solve today."

Further information

Tuxera did not announce pricing or availability for Tuxera NTFS for Windows CE, nor did it say whether the product would be available to individual developers and end users, or only to OEMs.

Background information on the company's existing products, the Linux-based NTFS for Embedded Systems, and the OS X-based NTFS for Mac, may be found
here
and here, respectively.